I want an iPhone

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Friday, 17 November 2006 19:25

Your IT - Entertainment

Sorry, Jason D. O’Grady, but I want an iPhone.

The rumour is out: Apple has placed an order with Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn for 12 million iPod phones, said to have a 2 megapixel camera and naturally a built-in iPod with some kind of scroll wheel.

Jason wrote an article on why he doesn’t want an iPhone for ZDnet, and as such, is a much more technologically literate person than most of the population out there. He’s an avowed Palm Treo fan, a very popular smartphone model, with mini keyboard, browsing capabilities, multimedia capabilities and more. It’s a model I quite like too, and I can certainly see why he loves it so much.

Jason doesn't want an iPhone because it probably won't have the smartphone features the Treo has, but that's precisely the reason why many people will want an iPhone. Less complicated, easy to use and it does music, too - the iPod way.

I personally love smartphones like Jason, and as a journalist I get to test a lot of phones. Being in contact with lots of people, as I often help them fix and update their computers, I show them the phones I test and the iPod nano 2nd-gen 8Gb model I wear around my neck with the Apple Lanyard headphones along with whatever other gadgets I'm testing at the time.

And after having shown a lot of people the iPod and spoken of the possibility of an iPhone from Apple, many profess to also want an iPod and phone merged together from Apple.

And while smartphone owners already have a unit that can play mp3s, videos, TV shows, audio books and more, some of them want an iPhone, too. While they’ve probably already purchased a 1Gb or 2Gb memory card, and might even already have two or more, just so they can take their music and digital media with them, some wonder how much nicer the digital media experience would be with a real Apple iPhone.

So while those that have them might use their smartphones for digital media all time time, a number wish it was more iPod like.

But most people out there, even if they have a videophone or non-keyboard smartphone from Nokia, Sony Ericsson and others, just use their phones to make and receive phone calls and sens SMS text messages.

Being a self-styled technology evangelist, I’m always encouraging people to use the more advanced features of their phones. I have great fun in showing people that their phone is also a TV, with many channels available (albeit usually at a low cost per month), with Australia’s biggest Telco even offering 12 channels of Foxtel, Australia’s cable TV service.

There are more fundamental reasons why I want an iPod, and more on what smartphones can already do, as well as a extremely cool and affordable way to turn your iPod into a phone today. Click on the 'next' link below to find out!